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We spare nothing essential to our armies; we should spare nothing essential to our currency.
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Sumner insists that just as resources are vital for the military, they are equally essential for the currency.
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It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
I am opposed to a tariff for protection merely, and not for revenue."--Letter to John K.
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